Theatre: Age of Arousal

Age of Arousal

By Linda Griffiths, Wildly inspired by George Gissing’s The Odd Women

Directed by Ian Fenwick

Presented by UFV Theatre

A lavish, sexy ensemble piece about the forbidden and gloriously liberated self.

It’s 1885 and the typewriter and the Suffragettes are sending things topsy-turvy. An early suffragette, Mary, runs a typing school for women with her younger lover, Rhoda. These new women take on three siblings as their pupils, spinsters Virginia, Alice and their sensual sister Monica, and find their liberal rules and ambitions challenged in every way. When Mary’s cousin Everard joins the scene, discoveries of passion, marriage, and the rights and roles of women are bursting like corsets with unbridled desire.

UFV Theatre is offering a new way for students to save on theatre tickets. Students may order advance tickets and choose their own seats at discounted rates of $15-$17 OR students may take their chances at the door with student rush tickets:

Student rush tickets are $10 for most performances of Age of Arousal and Romeo and Juliet. - student rush tickets only available at the door, 1 hr before show time- cash only- student ID required- available for all performances except January 10 and March 7- available for high school students and post-secondary students- subject to availability and best available seating only